Author profile: Ben Richardson

Dr Ben Richardson is Reader in International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research has focused on international trade and development. His latest book is the co-authored Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance: The European Union’s Trade-Labour Linkage in a Value Chain World (2020, Routledge).

Geopolitics and the British Empire: Halford Mackinder’s Liberal Imperialism

Ben Richardson • Mar 21 2021 • Articles

The story of Halford Mackinder’s electoral misadventure helps illuminate the ideological context in which geopolitics emerged and the purposes to which it was put.

Feeding the World

Ben Richardson • Jan 17 2017 • Articles

Almost a billion people are undernourished. But, it is not just problems of hunger that food politics concerns itself with. Issues relating to food safety, nutrition and livelihoods must also be understood.